Secluded Notes

Secluded Notes is a program similar to Steganos LockNote but works under FreeBSD or Linux.

Requirements

gtk+ 2.18.x

gconf2 2.28.x

openssl 0.9.8

After compiling the application you will end with 1 executable (nearly
83 KB on FreeBSD 8-STABLE) which you can move wherever you want--the
binary doesn't need installation.

Secluded Notes is a simple text editor that keeps its document as a part of its
own executable. That part is called an "attachment", and the program
encrypts/decrypts it on the fly with an AES 128-bit cipher.

As long as you close the application, it automatically updates itself
for the next run.

There is no need to hide your copy of Secluded Notes from an enemy because
without password he wouldn't be able to open Secluded Notes or decrypt the
attachment.

You can even backup the attachment after extracting it from Secluded Notes
executable.

By default Secluded Notes compiles as usual application which uses shared
libraries. This can be indigestible if one has a plan to move an
executable between several machines. Unfortunately Secluded Notes cannot be
linked statically due to obscure behaviour of GtkBuilder (this may be a
completely wrong assumption and if you know how to fix this problem,
please provide the answer to this
stackoverflow question).